Is this good for educators?

Yes — this version of "Neural Network for a gradient descent" is framed for educators teaching it to a class. Drop a live demo into a lecture or assign it as a shareable link — no lab installs.

Do I need to install anything?

No. It runs in any modern browser, free, with no account required.

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Neural Network for a gradient descent

Built for educators teaching it to a class. Drop a live demo into a lecture or assign it as a shareable link — no lab installs. Simulate a gradient descent live below — adjust the inputs and watch it respond, right in your browser.

Neural Network PlaygroundLive

2-layer MLP · live backprop

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A tiny multilayer perceptron trained by real backpropagation. The background shows its learned decision boundary; dots are the training data, colored by true class.

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Epoch0

Loss0.0000

Architecture2→8→1

Governing equation

a = tanh (W_{1} x + b_{1}), \overset{y}{^} = σ (W_{2} a + b_{2}), L = 0.0000

Reading this result: With 8 hidden units the net bends the boundary into curves — more units capture finer shapes like the spiral, but too many can overfit.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this good for educators?: Yes — this version of "Neural Network for a gradient descent" is framed for educators teaching it to a class. Drop a live demo into a lecture or assign it as a shareable link — no lab installs.
Do I need to install anything?: No. It runs in any modern browser, free, with no account required.